Why blog about the Alexander Technique? One reason to blog about the Alexander Technique is to learn about the Alexander Technique. Writing about the AT helps crystalize your thoughts, concepts, theories, and ideas. It encourages you to examine prejudices, jargon, habits of thought or word, or any other ideas that may, over time, have become [...]
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance"~Confucius The Alexander Technique and drugs. Alexander Technique students and trainees hold Alexander teachers to a high standard, and a certain standard about getting high. Alcohol, smoke, and other drugs are unnecessary, potentially harmful, and aren't conducive to good use, so Alexander Technique teachers [...]
Please Release Me. Alexander Technique core directions include letting your neck muscles release, so that your head will go up, with a slight forward rotation. Take that step before you take a step. Freeing your neck is like releasing the emergency brake, and neck freeing before and during any action is primary. F.M. Alexander, [...]
Prior to Alexander Technique lessons and moving towards an Alexander Technique neck, I had a pain in the neck called a "vibes neck". What's a vibes neck? It's what you do with your neck when you play an instrument called the vibes; you tighten it. The vibes, short for vibraphone, is played with mallets, and [...]
